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the issue of first birthday cards has continued. It will be seen from
the figures given above that children in the pre-school age group
form a very large percentage of the children immunised during the
year.
Records of immunising injections given at the Clinics or by
local practitioners have been kept on cards similar to the standardised
record card suggested in the Ministry of Health Circular
194/45, dated 14th November, 1945.
TUBERCULOSIS.
During the year under review 242 cases of pulmonary tuberculosis
and 23 cases of non-pulmonary tuberculosis were notified
for the first time under the Public Health (Tuberculosis) Regulations,
1930.
From the following table it will be seen that the number of
cases of tuberculosis notified in Hackney declined fairly steadily
from 1920 until 1941.